Treatment of eating disorders bridging the research-practice gap (Academic Press/Elsevier, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Eating disorders (EDs) affect at least 11 million people in the United States each year and€spread across age, race, ethnicity and socio-economic class. While professional literature on the subject has grown a great deal in the past 30 years, it tends to be exclusively research-based and lacking expert clinical commentary on treatment. This volume focuses on just such commentary, with chapters€authored by both expert clinicians and researchers. Core issues such as assessment and diagnosis, the correlation between EDs and weight and nutrition, and medical/psychiatric management are di